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From: "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
To: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: What happened to 4.2-Stable via cvsup?
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You didn't look hard enough. :)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE

-Joe

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:22:38PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:32:37AM +0400, dotslash wrote:
> > > I installed 4.2-Release from CD and wanting it to be 4.2-Stable I did a
> > > cvsup (tag=RELENG_4) for the sources and was suprised to see after booting
> > > that I have 4.3-RC now.
> > > 
> > > What happened to 4.2-Stable?  I thought that for those who want to follow
> > > STABLE via cvsup this is the way to go.
> > 
> > See the FAQ.
> 
> You'd think that would be a useful answer, but it's not. I've searched
> (for cvsup and relen) in the installation, hardware compatibility,
> troubleshooting, commercial applications, user applications, kernel
> configuration, system administration and misc. questions sections of
> the faq so far, and I haven't found an answer. And searching through
> my list archives gets me 'see the faq'! Bah. Why bother archiving the
> list then ?
> 
> Looking at the handbook, I see the following :
> 
> tag=RELENG_4
> 
> The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD-STABLE.
> 
> If this is not the case, then handbook should be updated. Tell me who
> to submit the fix to, the format for the submission (sgml I assume),
> and what the correct answer is, and I'll do it.
> 
> Now that I am done ranting, could anyone please tell me what the tag
> line should be to ensure that my servers stay on stable and don't
> accidentally get moved to a BETA or RC next time I am upgrading to fix
> something like ipf.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> - Wayne Pascoe 
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